Senate Passes Law Allowing American Citizens to be Imprisoned Without a Trial

The US Senate has passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 which will give the President power to lock up US citizens for life at Guantanamo Bay or other military prisons -- without charge and without trial. This police state measure had the support of 61 of our so called leaders in the Senate:



Ayotte (R-NH)


Barrasso (R-WY)

Blunt (R-MO)

Boozman (R-AR)

Brown (R-MA)

Burr (R-NC)

Casey (D-PA)

Chambliss (R-GA)

Coats (R-IN)

Coburn (R-OK)

Cochran (R-MS)

Collins (R-ME)

Conrad (D-ND)

Corker (R-TN)

Cornyn (R-TX)

Crapo (R-ID)

DeMint (R-SC)

Enzi (R-WY)

Graham (R-SC)

Grassley (R-IA)

Hagan (D-NC)

Hatch (R-UT)

Heller (R-NV)

Hoeven (R-ND)

Hutchison (R-TX)

Inhofe (R-OK)

Inouye (D-HI)

Isakson (R-GA)

Johanns (R-NE)

Johnson (R-WI)

Kohl (D-WI)

Kyl (R-AZ)

Landrieu (D-LA)

Lee (R-UT)

Levin (D-MI)

Lieberman (ID-CT)

Lugar (R-IN)

Manchin (D-WV)

McCain (R-AZ)

McCaskill (D-MO)

McConnell (R-KY)

Menendez (D-NJ)

Moran (R-KS)

Nelson (D-NE)

Portman (R-OH)

Pryor (D-AR)

Reed (D-RI)

Risch (R-ID)

Roberts (R-KS)

Rubio (R-FL)

Sessions (R-AL)

Shaheen (D-NH)

Shelby (R-AL)

Snowe (R-ME)

Stabenow (D-MI)

Thune (R-SD)

Toomey (R-PA)

Vitter (R-LA)

Whitehouse (D-RI)

Wicker (R-MS)

These Senators are traitors to this nation. This violates the foundations that this country was built upon.

Hyper-Militarized Police

Lionel reflects on the burgeoning incidents of police abuse of Americans.

Gingrich Spokesperson Gets Caught in the the Hypocrisy and Lies of Politics

Newt Gingrich Spokesperson, Allen Olson gets tangled up in the hypocrisy and lies of politics. He states that Newt Gingrich is against redistribution of wealth, but has a hard time opposing the many examples given to him.

Freedom's Greatest Hour of Danger?

A very powerful message from Judge Andrew Napolitano:

The Real Thanksgiving Story

The story you probably heard in school is not the true story. First Julie Borowski tells the real story.



From the Ludwig von Mises Institute

The Great Thanksgiving Hoax

By Richard J. Maybury

Each year at this time school children all over America are taught the official Thanksgiving story, and newspapers, radio, TV, and magazines devote vast amounts of time and space to it. It is all very colorful and fascinating.

It is also very deceiving. This official story is nothing like what really happened. It is a fairy tale, a whitewashed and sanitized collection of half-truths which divert attention away from Thanksgiving's real meaning.

The official story has the pilgrims boarding the Mayflower, coming to America and establishing the Plymouth colony in the winter of 1620-21. This first winter is hard, and half the colonists die. But the survivors are hard working and tenacious, and they learn new farming techniques from the Indians. The harvest of 1621 is bountiful. The Pilgrims hold a celebration, and give thanks to God. They are grateful for the wonderful new abundant land He has given them.

The official story then has the Pilgrims living more or less happily ever after, each year repeating the first Thanksgiving. Other early colonies also have hard times at first, but they soon prosper and adopt the annual tradition of giving thanks for this prosperous new land called America.

The problem with this official story is that the harvest of 1621 was not bountiful, nor were the colonists hardworking or tenacious. 1621 was a famine year and many of the colonists were lazy thieves.

In his 'History of Plymouth Plantation,' the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years, because they refused to work in the fields. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with "corruption," and with "confusion and discontent." The crops were small because "much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable."

In the harvest feasts of 1621 and 1622, "all had their hungry bellies filled," but only briefly. The prevailing condition during those years was not the abundance the official story claims, it was famine and death. The first "Thanksgiving" was not so much a celebration as it was the last meal of condemned men.

But in subsequent years something changes. The harvest of 1623 was different. Suddenly, "instead of famine now God gave them plenty," Bradford wrote, "and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God." Thereafter, he wrote, "any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day." In fact, in 1624, so much food was produced that the colonists were able to begin exporting corn.

What happened?

After the poor harvest of 1622, writes Bradford, "they began to think how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop." They began to question their form of economic organization.

This had required that "all profits & benefits that are got by trade, working, fishing, or any other means" were to be placed in the common stock of the colony, and that, "all such persons as are of this colony, are to have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock." A person was to put into the common stock all he could, and take out only what he needed.

This "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" was an early form of socialism, and it is why the Pilgrims were starving. Bradford writes that "young men that are most able and fit for labor and service" complained about being forced to "spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children." Also, "the strong, or man of parts, had no more in division of victuals and clothes, than he that was weak." So the young and strong refused to work and the total amount of food produced was never adequate.

To rectify this situation, in 1623 Bradford abolished socialism. He gave each household a parcel of land and told them they could keep what they produced, or trade it away as they saw fit. In other words, he replaced socialism with a free market, and that was the end of famines.

Many early groups of colonists set up socialist states, all with the same terrible results. At Jamestown, established in 1607, out of every shipload of settlers that arrived, less than half would survive their first twelve months in America. Most of the work was being done by only one-fifth of the men, the other four-fifths choosing to be parasites. In the winter of 1609-10, called "The Starving Time," the population fell from five-hundred to sixty.

Then the Jamestown colony was converted to a free market, and the results were every bit as dramatic as those at Plymouth. In 1614, Colony Secretary Ralph Hamor wrote that after the switch there was "plenty of food, which every man by his own industry may easily and doth procure." He said that when the socialist system had prevailed, "we reaped not so much corn from the labors of thirty men as three men have done for themselves now."

Before these free markets were established, the colonists had nothing for which to be thankful. They were in the same situation as Ethiopians are today, and for the same reasons. But after free markets were established, the resulting abundance was so dramatic that the annual Thanksgiving celebrations became common throughout the colonies, and in 1863, Thanksgiving became a national holiday.

Thus the real reason for Thanksgiving, deleted from the official story, is: Socialism does not work; the one and only source of abundance is free markets, and we thank God we live in a country where we can have them.

* * * * *

Mr. Maybury writes on investments.

This article originally appeared in The Free Market, November 1985.

The One Party State

Go ahead name the President who did these things:

The Seven Warmongers and the Peace Maker

Ron Paul at the CNN debate on November 22, 2011.

Ron Paul in Four Way Tie for First in Iowa

According to a Bloomberg Poll, Ron Paul is in a statistical tie for first in Iowa. Of course most of the media will continue to ignore him since he doesn't fit into the fake left/right paradigm.

Ron Paul appeared on Fox with Megyn Kelly today (11/16/2011).

Ron Paul Discusses Social Security, Medicare, Senior Citizens on Fixed Incomes, Inflation, Jobs and the Economy

Ron Paul is interviewed on November 13, 2011 by political reporter Dave Price of Iowa's WHO-TV13 .


This interview aired in Iowa on Sunday, Nov. 13

Armistice Day - To Celebrate the End of the War to Save Some Empires from Other Empires

Today was originally called Armistice Day and was to celebrate the end of the World War I. World War I was called either "The War to End all Wars" or "The War to Make the World Safe for Democracy".  Of course, like most wars the political leaders were lying through their teeth. World War I was nothing more than another in a long, long list of imperialist wars, with competing empires battling for control.

It was just another war were the common foot soldier shed his blood for the wealthy and powerful. It was the British, French, Russian and the emerging American Empire versus the German, Austrian and Ottoman Empires. Besides ending the lives of 10 million soldiers and 7 million civilians, another 20 million were wounded.

Instead of ending all wars, it merely laid the foundation for the Bolshevik Revolution, the rise of the Nazi's and World War II. 

Today honor our soldiers by opposing our imperialist foreign policy. Honor our soldiers by working to bring them home to the United States.

Remembering those millions of young men whose lives were cruelly taken away from them by the imperialist warmongers who waged the First World War. The song is "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by Shane McGowan.

Losing the War on Poverty

The free market helps people rise out of poverty. Government keeps people poor.

Ron Paul at the 11/09/11 Debate.

Ron Paul  at the 11/09/11 debate.

Ed Thompson's Reflects on What is Important- RIP

Ed Thompson who was most well-known for being elected as Libertarian Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin, and for achieving an unprecedented 11% of the vote in his run for Governor of Wisconsin as a Libertarian in 2002, died on October 22, 2011.

From Gene Cisewski:

Ed Thompson, brother of former Governor and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson, discusses how the diagnosis of Stage Four Pancreatic Cancer has changed his outlook. Thompson was diagnosed last September while campaigning for the Wisconsin State Senate, effectively taking him out of the race (which he only lost by about one-half of one percent of the votes cast). Recorded on June 17, 2011, many of these remarks were shared a month earlier when Ed addressed the Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Group's annual convention in Madison as they awarded him "humanitarian of the year". It was his first speech since before last fall's election.

Greek Prime Minister from Saint Paul Minnesota Forms Unity Government for the Banks

Lionel explains the new Greek "Unity" government.

Ron Paul Interview on Fox News Sunday 11/6/11

Extended interview of Ron Paul by Chris Wallace.

The Euro Should Go Out of Existence

Lew Rockwell says the Euro should go out of existence.

Equality

From LearnLiberty:

According to the Declaration of Independence, we're all created equal. But Professor Aeon Skoble is not as rich as Bill Gates, as tough as Vin Diesel, or as sexy as Hugh Jackman. To Professor Skoble, the Declaration intends for us all to be treated equal before the law. Put another way, we should all have equal freedom to choose our own respective paths to happiness as long as we do not infringe on the freedoms of others.


Treating people as equals means that we should show equal respect for the choices they make. That means that, although we may disagree with others, we should respect their preferences for jobs, tv shows, music, etc... The legal system should show equal respect for persons by respecting their rights equally, not by interfering with the outcomes of people's choices. If we try to produce equality in some other fashion, we will necessarily violate people's freedom to choose.

See full lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zmGDbsf2Fk

October's Busybodies

From ReasonTV:

Turns out minding other people's business is a worldwide affliction, and in this very special edition of Nanny of the Month, we explore nannyism across the pond.


Fat taxes are all the rage in Europe. After the skinny Danes slapped a tax on foods high in saturated fats, other European pols—including British Prime Minister David Cameron—have considered following suit.

And in Australia's Northern Territory, they're bringing alcohol prohibition back—incrementally, that is—by barring problem drinkers from buying grog. What could possibly go wrong!

But in the first-ever Nanny of the Month Global Edition, top dishonors go to the European Union's control freaks who have cracked down on free-range kids, slapping regulations on everything from baby rattlers (which have brand-new noise restrictions) to blowing up balloons (not to be done by tots under age eight!).

The Government Picks Winners and We Lose

 Judge Andrew Napolitano talks about government intervention in the economy in light of the latest government loss of taxpayer dollars - $72 million on Beacon Power. The Judge says calling this crony capitalism, defames capitalism. He states we should call it what it is - Fascism.